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Quotes by Director
"Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution."
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"Like anywhere, we had to make people understand that we were there with good intentions, and that we were there with respect. We started making contacts with the people in the neighborhood three months before shooting began, so that everyone involved was comfortable."
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"I was a sort of rock journalist - whatever that is - in London in the late '60s."
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"To find a script that works with provocative ideas is hard to find."
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"Disney was not a good animator, he didn't draw well at all, but he was always a great idea man, and a good writer."
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"I certainly grew up seeing more movies and television than I read books, but when it came time to do the thing itself you don't have to hire a lot of people to sit down and write a book, so that was the story-telling medium that was available to me."
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"The guy that made me wanna make movies... and this is off the wall-is a guy named Michael Pal, the British director."
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"I hate Shakespeare. I think Shakespeare's rubbish."
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"Only the Russian Cultural Officer was interested in my project."
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"We met in Cracker. I played a maniac fan who murders a policeman and she did my makeup. I thought anyone interested in me looking like that must have genuinely liked me."
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"So we got there at 6 a.m. We'd be shooting by 6:45. We wouldn't break for lunch, we'd just pass food around all day. And we would just rock and roll 'til 4, then Matty Libatique, our great cinematographer, would say, "Outta light, guys" - and that was it."
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"Fahrenheit 9/11 took public domain information that should have been on the news every night and put it in a film that a lot of people went to see. But still Bush has never had to answer those charges."
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"The programme has ended, something has finished, and he has a sense of something having finished its course, and then all of a sudden he turns away and this other thing has just finished its course, this other person."
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"You have no idea how fragile an actor's self-worth is."
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"I probably wouldn't have done as many as I did in one year, which I did when I was trying to raise money."
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"In a way, the history of jazz's development is a small mirror of classical music's development through the centuries. Now jazz is a living form of original music, while classical music has gotten to the end of its cycle in terms of exploring its form."
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"Children's finger-painting came under the arts, but movies didn't."
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"Not that I've always loved the movie when they finally come out, or if they ever come out-because many of them don't come out-but I've gotten to work with really good story editors and stuff like that."
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"I would love to work with Adam Sandler. Because then all I'd have to do is just turn the camera on and off."
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"People have perhaps gotten to the point where for the most part movies are a just bit of escape."
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"I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like."
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"It's a very slow process - two steps forward, one step back - but I'm inching in the right direction."
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"But I don't have such a strong desire to need to get away from filmmaking."
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"I think that will be a lot of fun for audiences to get the same stream of consciousness that was going through my head at the time. It was very exciting to suddenly recall what I was feeling at the time."
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"I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights."
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"Nerves provide me with energy... It's when I don't have them, when I feel at ease, that's when I get worried."
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"At the moment, my mother is the only one left in Glasgow, although it's certainly my home."
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"Films can only be made by by-passing the will of those who appear in them, using not what they do, but what they are."
Will,
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"We don't perceive a contradiction between writing books, making films or producing a television program. These days you can't choose how you want to express yourself anymore."
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"Model. Two mobile eyes in a mobile head, itself on a mobile body."
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"There's nothing I've done which I'm ashamed of or I thought was actually bad."
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